We performed a comparison between HPE Nimble Storage and HPE Primera based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison Results: The two solutions had a similar user rating in terms of ease of deployment. HPE Primera had a better user rating regarding pricing and service and support. In terms of features, HPE Nimble Storage users felt there were stability and scalability issues, while HPE Primera users felt the reporting console needed improvements and the user interface wasn’t user-friendly.
"Their technical support is excellent. It's the best out of any of the vendors we work with."
"The initial setup was very straightforward and very quick. It was up and running in our data center within 24 hours of receiving it."
"It helps us maintain uptime much better than other solutions we've used in the past, and the support is extremely quick and responsive."
"Technical support is excellent. I've had very good responses from technical support. We had a couple of cases where we needed support. Some of the communications were purely over email and some has been an actual call to the service desk."
"I have seen a huge increase in speed and performance on our databases."
"One of the features that my customers are really interested in is immutable snapshots. There are immutable snapshots to which your applications can be reverted back if you are hit by some kind of ransomware threat or malicious attack. That's kind of a key deal, and it is one of the selling points I use to point out to my customers the value and the features that Pure Storage brings to the table."
"The solution is easy to scale. I'm running two environments right now, so I need to scale. I'm running a part technology. I've got an A-side and a B-side."
"One of the lesser sung advantages was when we started running our interface engine on Pure Storage. The ability to process messages and pass them through in our organization skyrocketed purely because of a disk that I owned which we were getting out of Pure Storage."
"Even through upgrades, there is no downtime, not even a hiccup for users."
"The quality of the service and management tools let us make contractual guarantees for storage performance for customers. That's something we couldn't do before."
"Its speed, ease of use, and it has been completely reliable."
"This solution has given us reliability that is evident by the fact that it has been running for five years with virtually no hiccups."
"HPE Nimble Storage is quick to release updates that fix bugs or problems and the failover has been good."
"They could probably improve an organization with just about anything. It is all a matter of ease of use, ease of the implementation, etc."
"The all-flash positions our organization for growth. It is much easier to use, and we do not have to worry about the I/O profile of the workloads that we putting on the array."
"HPE Nimble Storage is very stable and performs well."
"HPE provides good support through their customer service."
"It is a stable solution...It is a scalable solution."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to provide the IOPS ratio which is required by a lot of our customers."
"The performance of the solution is good."
"HPE Primera is an all-flash storage product that's very stable and has a higher storage capacity. It can also give better ROI compared to NetApp."
"The high availability was most valuable because they come with what's called 100% data availability. With special terms, they license and guarantee 100% data availability. That was probably one of the key features or components that HPE was offering with that model."
"HPE Primera is scalable."
"The interface is simplified."
"I would like to see support for NVMe, end-to-end."
"I would rate this solution an eight. There's always room for improvement, nobody is perfect to get a ten out of ten. They do what they do well. It's not cheap but we it's for uses that we needed."
"If we suddenly dump large amounts of data onto the storage system, it takes a while to process it."
"Just some nit picky stuff, like allowing servers and volumes to be grouped. Therefore, it would easier to work with them in the GUI."
"Beyond a certain amount of petabytes, you have to have a separate system. Basically, it's not infinitely scalable."
"We do have an issue with the vCenter integration. Pure Storage says it has a lot of free space, but vCenter says its completely full. This is because their dedupes are saved as space, but Vcenter still detects the disk as completely full. So, we do have an issue with that."
"I would like some form of QoS implemented. As a service provider, it would be beneficial to have it."
"Historical analytics would be useful. At the moment, they don't have any type of application built for historical analytics."
"There is a new version of the Nimble and 3PAR systems called Alletra and they have a lot of new features."
"I would like to see integration with OneView, at least for reporting or some sort of monitoring."
"They keep talking about doing one-to-many replication. This is what we'd like to see, just to help with data replication."
"The solution’s stability could be better. The tool’s pricing is high and depends on the partner."
"A feature that would be a nice addition to the next release would be a filer option. A filer option so that you could connect the sim or NFS or chips like NetApp does for NAS functionality."
"I would like to see native network attached storage (NAS) functionality. Our customers are looking for NAS, and Nimble can't give it to them."
"We would like there to be more enhanced features."
"I wish they would put the InfoSight page back the way it was. I got in it for the first time about two years ago, and it looked the same for about a year and a half. Then, about six months ago, it changed. There are different options now. I can still get to where I need to go, but it feels like it takes longer, where before it didn't. Also, I felt like I had a lot more options before. I have to do a lot more to digging now to get to where I need to go. I just wish they had their old page back."
"The interface needs to be more user-friendly in that sense that installation and management are still a bit on the high end."
"We face challenges with false alarms, particularly daily alerts related to replication link breaks. I'm not happy with the customer service and support."
"Primera should be more user-friendly."
"The solution could improve by having seamless migration from other storage systems. The process should be made easier."
"They could work to make scalability easier."
"We cannot use this storage for critical applications and data."
"The cost of HPE Primera could be lower."
"The solution could prove the reporting."
HPE Nimble Storage is ranked 5th in All-Flash Storage with 119 reviews while HPE Primera is ranked 7th in All-Flash Storage with 38 reviews. HPE Nimble Storage is rated 9.0, while HPE Primera is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HPE Nimble Storage writes "Beneficial management software, straightforward installation, and good support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HPE Primera writes "A highly stable and easy-to-configure solution that provides excellent features that enable smooth migration". HPE Nimble Storage is most compared with Dell Unity XT, Dell PowerStore, VMware vSAN, IBM FlashSystem and NetApp AFF, whereas HPE Primera is most compared with HPE 3PAR StoreServ, Dell PowerStore, NetApp AFF, IBM FlashSystem and Huawei OceanStor Dorado. See our HPE Nimble Storage vs. HPE Primera report.
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